Items tagged with: one-offs and homebuilts

The views from atop Corkscrew Hill are simply amazing. Here the Group 2A machines, 1955-’61 Sports Cars, make a warm-up lap behind the pace car. Photos by David Conwill. “Pebble Beach,” as Monterey C...

John Athan’s 1929 Ford roadster atop a 1932 Ford frame is historical not only for its appearance along side Elvis Presley in the 1957 film Loving You (The King’s first starring role), but because it ...

Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...

Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...

From the seller’s description: 1927 Ford Model T In a showroom with original, correct, straight standing, never waiver from the norm typical Model T or Model A there’s a statement to be heard from on...

Gardner Special photos via Bonhams; Manta Ray photos via Mecum Auctions. At first glance, the 1949 Vince Gardner Special and the 1952 Manta Ray seem to share little other than their custom bodies and...

Ford and Roush Performance built this custom Mustang GT, inspired by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Bud Anderson, a World War II triple ace pilot, and the P-51 Mustang fighter planes he flew in combat nick...

Chris Mazzilli’s 1983 Corvette at the reveal. At the right of the frame are Rick Darling, former Corvette ride and handling engineer, and Dave McLellan, former Corvette chief engineer. Photos by Chri...

Lo-Res Car Sculpture by Rem D Koolhaas / United Nude. Photos courtesy Rem D Koolhaas / United Nude. “Modern cars all look alike,” is a complaint we often hear from readers, but what if a pair of desi...

1958 BMW Isetta 300 Moto Coupe. Photo courtesy of The Owls Head Transportation Museum. Not every technological advancement is a success. Some don’t function as advertised, like the 1899 Horsey Horsel...

One-off 1952 Sterling Stein for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A Pingel designed all-steel bodied two seat open roadster, built in 1952, and a survivor over time. It never had t...

Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...

It seems like every time we write about a car, we find something to love about that car — even if it’s nothing we’ve contemplated in the past. Loving a car means dreaming about it, and dreaming about...

Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...

1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...

Photos and images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Fifteen years after Giovanni Bucci left Europe on his own terms, he returned in the same manner, driving a singular vehicle of his own design and construction...

The Beechcraft Plainsman, had it been built, wouldn’t have just been ahead of its time, in some respects it would have been ahead of our time as well. The specs were pretty well laid out in an articl...

On Ventura Boulevard there stands a commercial building shaped like a Cadillac Fleetwood. Back in the Eighties, the Los Angeles Times dug into the building’s history and its architect’s intentions. A...

Hand-built 1959 Crosley-based special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very attractive styling for a hand-crafted one-off from California. Designed and built by a sports car e...

1960 Imperial Crown convertible, one of 618 built and roughly 31 remaining. It earned a Grand National Senior Champion from the AACA in 2014. Photography by author. Go to pretty much any open car sho...

From the seller’s description: Professionally built, this one-of-a-kind 1980 Pinto pickup is finished in White with Metallic Copper stripes and hand-painted design motifs that give it an unmistakable...